ENG 327-01 - The Romantics

4 credits (Fall)

“Frankenstein’s Family: The Godwins and The Shelleys.” Two generations of a single remarkable family helped create modern feminism, the literary gothic, the detective novel, anarchist philosophy, the post-apocalyptic novel, and science fiction. This class will examine those origin stories and their revolutionary context through the lives and work of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Key texts will include Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Maria, Godwin’s Caleb Williams and Political Justice, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Mathilda, and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Cenci.

Prerequisite: ENG 223, ENG 224, ENG 225, ENG 227, or ENG 228; with grade S, C, or better.
Instructor: Simpson